Best Movies of 2021
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Drive My CarThree hours of driving, rehearsal and withheld grief, and about as good as contemporary cinema gets.Read the review
The Power of the DogA western built entirely out of what a cruel man cannot say, and it only clicks in retrospect.
The Worst Person in the WorldTwelve chapters about being thirty and unfinished, and very funny about the dread of it.
Jai BhimA courtroom drama with a star as the saviour, but Lijomol Jose and K. Manikandan make sure the Irula family at its centre is never a prop.
The Green KnightAn Arthurian poem shot slow, strange and genuinely medieval, and the most beautiful film of its year.
Licorice PizzaAlmost no plot and enormous momentum, plus the best debut performance of the year.
Old HenryA small farm, a bag of money and one of the best late reveals the western has produced this century.
The Suicide SquadJames Gunn kills half the cast in the first ten minutes and earns every death after that.
Judas and the Black MessiahIt centers the informant instead of the martyr, and makes you sit inside his cowardice for two hours.
Tick, Tick... Boom!Andrew Garfield's frantic, fully committed Jonathan Larson carries Lin-Manuel Miranda's loving debut, a musical about the cost of making musicals.